Word: spreads
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...similar model has spread to other graduate programs, such as medical schools. In 2002, Congress agreed to finance a loan-repayment system through the National Institutes of Health designed to encourage physicians and scientists to work at public hospitals and research facilities, forgoing private practice. Large salary differentials between the public and private sectors, causing a dearth of medical and scientific researchers, prompted this initiative. Like law school PSLRPs, the National Institutes of Health’s program enables medical students to enter the public service realm by reducing debt upon graduation...
...people of the delta fend for themselves. Farming families dry their recently harvested rice on nets spread out on the Bogalay road, and hang their damp clothes on the dead power lines. In the Bogalay area, the harvest was almost complete when Nargis struck, although much of it now lies unhusked in cyclone-crippled rice mills...
Many of the survivors have taken refuge in nearby monasteries and schools. By late week the government has sent buses to take survivors to larger towns further inland. But many refugees were unwilling to leave their locality for camps where disease can spread quickly. Late at night, deep in the delta, a convoy of 13 buses headed back empty to the town of Maubin. No one had taken the military's offer of shelter. But in the town of Kyaiklat, 12 camps were full, each teeming with around 2,000 refugees. Ma Sein and her four children were holed...
...December he was injected with live tumor cells. So far, he's still healthy. The Special Six, caught last year, also have MHC types not seen in the east, says immunologist Woods, who's based at the University of Tasmania. "It's never happened before that a disease has spread through a population without some animals being resistant - even Ebola doesn't kill everyone." So naturally resistant devils ought to exist, he says. "This tumor has broken all the rules so far. It has to obey one eventually...
...island's northwest, one of McCallum's students has been tracking an odd trend in the epidemic. In the past two years, only 10 animals with tumors have been found in a forestry area known as West Pencil Pine, a favorite devil haunt. That suggests that the disease's spread is slowing. Could local devils be resisting it? Belov and Woods are both itching to compare MHC types in the region, and a major effort to trap West Pencil Pine devils will soon begin. "The next month could be a watershed," says Woods. "We're hoping...